fire fighting fire safety solas regulation exam guide
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SOLAS Regulation 9
Chapter II-2: Construction – fire protection, detection, extinction
Cargo ships except tankers
2.3.1 Methods of protection in accommodation area
• 2.3.1.1 One of the following methods of protection shall be adopted in
Accommodation and service spaces and control stations:
1 Method IC – The construction of internal divisional bulkheads of non-combustible ‘‘B’’ or ‘‘C’’
class divisions generally without the installation of an automatic sprinkler, fire detection and fire
alarm system in the accommodation and service spaces, except as required by regulation
7.5.5.1; or
2 Method IIC – The fitting of an automatic sprinkler, fire detection and fire alarm system as
required by regulation 7.5.5.2 for the detection and extinction of fire in all spaces in which fire
might be expected to originate, generally with no restriction on the type of internal divisional
bulkheads; or
3 Method IIIC – The fitting of a fixed fire detection and fire alarm system as required by
regulation 7.5.5.3 in spaces in which a fire might be expected to originate, generally with no
restriction on the type of internal divisional bulkheads, except that in no case shall the area of
any accommodation space or spaces bounded by an ‘‘A’’ or ‘‘B’’ class division exceed 50 m2.
However,
consideration may be given by the Administration to increasing this area for public spaces.
Fire Safety
Fire Fighting Solas Regulation